Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-11-06
sHEARING ~JACK-RABBITs.
A New England Agricultural Editors Ides
Sneered at by a Wild Western Humorist.

A New England Agricultural Editors ide'
Sneered ut by q Wild Western Humorist'
Fred H. CarruA's OrerldRd Sketches.
The New England Farm Monitor ant
Dairy Guide thinks that it has found a new
source of wool supply. 1t says: 1T would
seem as if a rival Of the sheep as a woo
producer has arisen. The heretofore
worthless Western ~jack-rabbit is bsins
sheared in some quarters, and it is said Il
produce an article of wool equal to lambs
wool and ever finer"
Our Eastern friend should not get toe
sanguine. There is no need to get frighten'
ed and 90 to selling OF your sheep for NUT
ton. Ii the editor of the Farm Monitor
should ever 20 out on the prairie and see 6
i~adk-rabbit while it was walking slow, but
nevertheless presenting the optical illusion
of a gray streak two miles and a half long
he would probably think that it was al
| riyht and that the doom of the sheep wa:
sealed. And it would be If he could sheal
the streak. The day he walked alons
down one side of a streak of jack-rabbltt FOL
two miles and q bali shearing an article oil
wool equal to lambs wool and even finer
| and then moved his way hack the othel
side. would be very cool for the sheep.
But he can't do it, yousee. He can't eyer
I catch the rabbit and shear that. Hour dig
ui6ed and scholarly New England editor
could yet astride OF ! quick active piece o
chain lightning and spur it up lively n
might possibly overtake q jack-raboit anC
shear it as he rode alongside OF 1t for 4
couple ofhundred miles. This seems hardly
practicable, however, and 1t looks as II w
would have to worry along with ordinary
wool for o while yet.
There is another point this able.groWlpt
crops and bloOded-cOw Journalist Is some
what mixed upon, and that Is the subJec
of hay fires. He says that Hay, as use'
in many parts of the prairie regions OF tn
West, makes an excellent fuel II o yer,
fair substitute for coal or wOok."
He didn't write this in the winter b.
the warmth of q hay IRE, though; other
wise when he got through the ink on bot
pen and paper would have been frozen
and when he lifted up the pen the para
graph would have peeled Of the paper an
come mp, too, an unacceptable tangle
like molasses poured around on i buck
wheat cake. When he bad turned his Ia.
item over and looked at it and observed
that it resembled a coil of wire of q broom
he would have laid it carefully aside ant
got up and gone twisting more hay.
A man who is twisting hay for = hay hr,
never stops " write anything. Sometime
he has been known TO stop and hastily die
tate his last will and testament when h,
felt that no could not hold out mucl
longer; but that is all.
These items about the beauty OF hay fire
are mostly produced in Boston, though
some very tair ones are occasionally turned
out in New York. The man who Is stand
ing over a hay fire twisting fuel torit whll'
all the warmth he gets is from the eXercls'
and has to hold his mouth open To keel
his teeth from freezing together, neve
thinks of saying much in favor OF any
thing.
Mr.. IngersOll could hardly approach
man and attempt TO convince him that tn
old and well-knOwn idea of future punish
ment is all wrong under more untavoabl'
circumstances.
The trouble with running this style o
ire is that the stove has such IN astonlsh
ing appetite for hay. The stomach OF tn
hay stove is always empty.